FREE Yoga all day at Bridge Fest!

We're confident that you already have your ticket for this weekend’s outdoor music festival — Twin Ports Bridge Festival — but wanted y’all to know that there will be yoga happening most of the day (offered by Yoga North and Deep Peace Wellness) — included in the cost of the ticket.

Below is the yoga schedule for the day:

11:00am- Therapeutic Yoga (right when the gates open — start the day with wellness)
12:00pm- Kundalini
1:00pm- SomaYoga
2:00pm- Gentle Yoga for Every Body
3:00pm- Yin Yoga
4:00pm- Vinyasa Flow
5:15pm- Community Yoga on the Mainstage to kick off the music!!

Also– FREE One on One Private Sessions – Down Dog Clinics begin at 11:00am

So there’s the schedule. We hope to see you at the Festival. For AWESOME music. And outdoor yoga.

Stop by the Yoga Tent to receive a FREE yoga pass for Yoga North and Deep Peace, and attend hours of FREE yoga that day.

In case you don’t have your ticket, or haven’t heard about the Twin Ports Bridge Fest– visit Laughing Stock Design to learn more and purchase tickets.

Twin Ports Bridge Festival

Bayfront Festival Park, July 9th

11:00 am~ Gates Open

11:30 am~ Free the Hikers Rally

12:45 pm~ Music by Sarah Krueger and Friends

2:00 pm~ Speaker Xavier Bell

3:00 pm ~ Music by James Moors

4:00 pm ~ Speaker Pete Feigal

5:15 pm ~ Community Yoga with Deep Peace Wellness Studio and Yoga North

6:30 pm ~ Music by Cloud Cult

8:30 pm ~ Music by Michael Franti & Spearhead

Join us for a day of celebrating community and humanity. Deep Peace will have a booth there offering healing sessions, yoga instruction and more.

For Tickets & Details visit www.LaughingstockDesign.biz

Also, please read below a letter by the sponsors.

Dear Citizens:

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” — Maya Angelou

And perhaps we can understand each other right here.

We, the members of our state and local community, ask you, the members of our state and local community, to join us in making Saturday, July 9, 2011, a milestone.

So many of the conflicts we face on a daily basis arise from our differences: different opinions, different religions, different nationalities, different priorities, different emotions.

We’re setting aside one day. An entire day devoted to understanding and respecting those differences instead of using them as barriers. An entire day to celebrate the fact that we’re all human, put in this world together, able to enjoy what the rest of humanity has to offer.

The Twin Ports Bridge Festival is not simply another concert at Bayfront. Every one of the day’s attractions was selected for its ability to give the audience more than entertainment, whether it’s social awareness, education, inspiration, or support. This festival not only brings us a national headliner committed to helping us celebrate our community, but it also keeps the entire event affordable and accessible to the whole family.

But we need your help to make this day a success. By collaborating on this one common objective—by attending, contributing, or becoming involved—we can build the positive relationships necessary to effect change in our community, our nation, and our world.

Only when we truly understand each other can we bring about progress. Let’s kickstart that progress on July 9.

Sincerely,

Mayor Don Ness, City of Duluth

Jeff Anderson, Duluth City Council, NU92 FM/Red Rock Radio

Senator Roger Reinert, State of Minnesota

Mark Rubin, St. Louis County Attorney

Terry Mattson, President/CEO, Visit Duluth

Xavier Bell, “X”, Community Engagement Program Manager, Community Action Duluth

Patricia Burns, President, Miller-Dwan Foundation

Ira “Mimmu” Salmela, Director of Development, Public Relations Director, KUMD 103.3 FM

Stephanie Love, Executive Director, Positive Energy Outdoors

Paul Lundgren, President, Perfect Duluth Day

Jodi Christensen, Deep Peace Wellness Studio & Yoga North, Yoga Instructor 500RYT, Somatics Educator

Molly McManus, Yoga North, Yoga Instructor 500RYT, IAYT, Somatics Educator

Hilary Buckwalter, Yoga North, Yoga Instructor 500RYT, Grad Student-Advocacy & Political Leadership, UMD

Becky Gourde, Communications Director, Laughingstock Design

Shane & Jenny Bauer, Design Directors, Laughingstock Design

Twin Ports Bridge Festival, July 9, Bayfront Festival Park
www.LaughingstockDesign.biz

Somatic Yoga and Awakened Wisdom Experiences this Saturday!

Somatic Yoga
April 23rd, 9-11 am
$20 Registration Required. Space is limited. Contact Jodi to register- 218.940.1484

Somatics education uses neuro-muscular reprogramming techniques that get at the source of the problem of tight or dysfunctional muscles which involves changing the programming of how the brain communicates to the muscle. The class is appropriate for all fitness levels and offers a set of gentle exercises that you can do on your own at home. This is a medication-free way to prevent and alleviate pain, chronic tension, and stiffness. Most exercises will be done lying on the floor, with small amounts of walking and observing that can be modified for those with limitations.
From there we will progress to therapeutic yoga techniques, increasing load and movement. We will then progress to incorporating principles into classic Asana.
Each month we will look at a new area of the body. This months focus is low back and hips.

Awakened Wisdom Experiences
April 23rd, 11:15-12:45 pm
$15 Registration required. Space is limited. Contact Jodi to register.

Discover ways to awaken your life, experience support, and learn with and from other interested souls in the process.
• Become actively engaged in creating the relationships, purpose, resources and quality of life you desire.
• Learn how to respond in a good way to what happens in all aspects of your life.
• Live from the wisdom and energy of your Divine Essence.
• Learn how to create beauty through every thought, word, and action.
• Connect to the Wisdom Field to inform you in what is needed.
Each month we will explore a concept from the teachings of Patrick Ryan from Awakened Wisdom. This month we will explore The Wisdom Field. What is the Wisdom Field? How do we tap into the Wisdom Field?

Yoga as Muse workshop

The Four Preparations of Yoga as Muse™ with special guest Cat Holm, Certified Yoga Instructor, Licensed Yoga as Muse Facilitator, and Author.

April 9th, 9:30-12:30 pm, $45. We are still accepting registrations! Contact Jodi to register.

Fire up and feed your creative practice! Sustain and Maintain a powerful creative practice with the tools of Yoga! You're a writer or an artist and you'd like to be in daily touch with your Muse. But the world interferes, The day job demands attention. You're too tired after work to think about creating. Who has time to be a writer or an artist, anyway?

It doesn't have to be this way. You can harness the effectiveness of a powerful creative practice with the tools of yoga. In the process you'll establish a powerful and sustainable creative habit.

We'll work with the four preparations that every writer or artist can use to establish a powerful creative practice : INTENTION, TIME, PERSEVERANCE, and CONCENTRATION.

We'll tap into the wisdom of your body, through yoga, and merge this with our ability to create. The result is phenomenal. You'll have the tools to get into the flow at will and to access new layers of writing or art.

You'll have time to create, and time to move. We'll have the optional opportunity to share our work in a safe, supportive environment.

Tap into the awareness and wisdom that your body can bring to your creative practice!

No yoga experience necessary. Mats are available, but you can bring your own if you wish. Bring a notebook, pen, or a sketchbook.

Space in this workshop is limited to 20 people, first come, fist served. Contact Jodi to register at 218-940-1484

Optional: you may wish to purchase and read this book beforehand: The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing, by Jeffrey Davis (Monkfish Publishing 2008). It can be purchased online or ordered through bookstore